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	'<{title}>' => 'Peter',
	'takedown' => '2017-11-01',
	'<{body}>' => <<<END
<section id="drudgery">
	<h2>University drudgery</h2>
	<p>
		I wrote up a few more discussion posts today.
		The first one sums up pretty well where I am with the course, so I guess I&apos;ll leave it at that and let it speak for itself.
	</p>
	<blockquote>
		<p>
			I&apos;m having trouble with the first problem of the coursework assignment.
			The issue is that it asks us to provide a function with a finite domain, but an infinite range.
			I&apos;ve been racking my brain for days and have gotten nowhere.
			I&apos;ve tried searching the Web for hints as well, but to no avail.
			The only things I find on the Web are invalid functions, as Y is given multiple values for a single value of X.
		</p>
		<p>
			Of course, were it the reverse, it&apos;d be entirely possible.
			Through the magic of either exponents or modulo division, I could easily construct a function with a finite range and an infinite domain.
			The Internet also suggests things such as sine waves for that sort of thing.
			However, that&apos;s not what the problem asks for.
		</p>
		<p>
			Am I missing something, or is this problem impossible?
			Did someone make a mistake when writing the assignment?
			Are the domain and range transposed or something?
		</p>
	</blockquote>
	<blockquote>
		<p>
			I eagerly await your response!
		</p>
		<p>
			Yes, when booting, the initial code is implemented as logic gates in the chip.
			Those gates are set up to load the $a[BIOS], then the $a[BIOS] is set up to load the bootloader, and the bootloader loads the operating system.
			That&apos;s all pretty straightforward.
			The only question I had on loading is how data (both instructions and non-instruction data) are copied from (for example) the hard drive to $a[RAM].
			This process occurs during booting, but it also occurs when you instruct the machine to start a new program or instruct the machine to load a new file in a currently-running program.
		</p>
		<p>
			That, and the bidirectional buses.
		</p>
	</blockquote>
	<blockquote>
		<p>
			Yeah, I understand taking courses simply because they&apos;re required.
			So far, I haven&apos;t taken a single elective yet, aside from one term in which the university messed up, and the only course I was allowed to take was a course I didn&apos;t need and didn&apos;t want.
			It was either that or take a term off from school.
			So so far, every course I&apos;ve taken, I&apos;ve taken simply because it&apos;s required.
			Still, I&apos;ve learned something in every course (aside from one that was just review for me), and I don&apos;t regret taking any of them.
			One well-timed course even helped me understand my living situation better, and in doing so, helped me escape a bad situation.
		</p>
		<p>
			I too look forward to this course and interacting with you and our other classmates.
			It&apos;s always interesting to see different people&apos;s perspectives on the discussion assignments and the written assignments (through peer grading).
		</p>
	</blockquote>
	<p>
		I mentioned before that I&apos;d like to keep the toxicity out of my journal to an extent, but I have no problems spewing toxicity into my coursework archive, especially considering what this archive has come to mean to me.
		Today, an opportunity to do such fell right into my lap.
		This week, we&apos;re required to write a paragraph about why we want to go to college.
		Schools seem to like using these sorts of meta topics for assignments in writing courses.
		The truth is though, I don&apos;t know why I want to take these courses any more.
		I remember wanting to when I started out, but the university has drained my enthusiasm through their censorship of me.
		Honestly, the only reason I can think of offhand for wanting to keep going is that I don&apos;t want to be a quitter.
		But I just want to get this degree over and done with, so I can leave the school and never return.
		I&apos;ve been contemplating how to make this assignment work and make it sound like I&apos;m excited to be here, but there just doesn&apos;t seem to be a way to do that.
		But today, I came up with a plan.
		I wrote up the paragraph showing real enthusiasm, but it was all written in the past tense.
		It was the only way I could show real enthusiasm, as opposed to faking it.
		Then, I included a follow-up paragraph explaining my current feelings toward the school and how none of my initial enthusiasm remains.
		Even just <strong>*thinking*</strong> about doing that temporarily restored some of my enthusiasm.
		I mean, three other students are going to read this, so I&apos;m practically venting to them.
		And on 2023-01-01, this submission will become a permanent part of my public archive.
		How can that not excite me?
		In the spirit of things, I finally built the automated countdown until freedom, which is now visible on the homepage.
		I can watch the days until I&apos;m unrestrained tick down each week as I update my canary and upload redaction placeholders for new journal entries.
	</p>
</section>
<section id="work">
	<h2>After work</h2>
	<p>
		My shift today was already short, but it got cut even more so due to low sales.
		On my way out, the head manager said they think I&apos;m a Peter and started addressing me as &quot;Pete&quot;.
		I complained that it&apos;s a man&apos;s name, but they took no heed of that.
		I think if I actually cared, they&apos;d knock it off, but they could tell I was more amused than anything.
	</p>
	<p>
		We have two can openers at work to use, depending on which problem you want to deal with.
		The main can opener works great (most of the time, anyway), but it&apos;s fixed to one of the tables.
		And is it on one of the tables you might be working at if you needed cans opened?
		Of course not!
		It&apos;s at one of the other stations, right in the way of people doing another job.
		If you want to use that can opener, you usually have to get in someone&apos;s way for a while.
		The other can opener is one of the standard ones most people keep in their home kitchen.
		The problem with this one though is that it barely functions.
		It&apos;s slow to open cans, you have to go over the same spots repeatedly, and even after you&apos;ve done the best you can, there are still thin strands of metal connecting the can top to the rest of the can.
		This can opener&apos;s been dysfunctional for years, but no one replaces it like they should.
		It&apos;s the management that should replace it and deduct the cost from the store&apos;s profits as a business expense, but still, I&apos;ve been meaning to replace it myself for a while.
		The only time I remember though is when I&apos;m using one of the can openers.
		I use it, move on to do other work, forget about the can openers, then go home.
		Today though, I had to stock some canned fruit just before I left.
		So after work, I went home and brought back one of my two can openers from home.
	</p>
	<p>
		Since shortly after speaking with my driving-instructor-to-be, I&apos;ve been getting increasingly paranoid about the situation.
		I told them April would be a good time for me to learn, but later explained I didn&apos;t have the expected time in April after all.
		My point was that we probably shouldn&apos;t wait until April after all, but I started getting the feeling they thought I meant I couldn&apos;t likely <strong>*finish*</strong> in April, but we should still wait until then to start.
		I don&apos;t think I was as clear as I meant to be.
		I don&apos;t know how long it takes to learn, and I only have until partway into July.
		My learner&apos;s permit expires at that time.
		Putting it off longer than we have to isn&apos;t a good idea!
		I&apos;ve been wanting to talk to them again and make sure we&apos;re on the same page, but I get really nervous about talking to people when I&apos;m requesting help from them.
		I didn&apos;t feel the timing was right when we&apos;re not either working alone together at a station (so I&apos;m not interrupting a different conversation) or I&apos;m off the clock and can wait for a chance in which I won&apos;t be interrupting anything.
		And it&apos;s not like we interact outside of work.
		In other words, my most likely and best opportunity was going to be when they were working and I was either not yet clocked on or had just clocked off.
		Such an opportunity presented itself today, but I nearly let it slip away.
		I deserve the peace of mind though.
		I deserve to get this pointless worry off my back.
		So I finally discussed the situation with them again.
		It looks like they haven&apos;t had time to look into when they&apos;ll have time, but they&apos;re starting school again in April, so we should probably get this taken care of before that.
		Perfect.
	</p>
</section>
END
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